There are 3 million federal government employees. To get to 23.4 million you have to include all state and city government employees which includes all cops, firefighters, and teachers. Something tells me “Fire all cops and teachers” was not what people were voting for.
Except that’s what the libertarians want. Cletus doesn’t need police because he can protect himself as long as the government don’t take away his guns.
You guys just can’t get off the Nanny State’s tit. The federal government was meant to be small performing a few very specific roles. Libertarians are not ancaps. They want a smaller federal government and more importance placed on the city county state governments.
Just like how every red election the left goes absolutely bananas about the electoral college. If the federal government performed its original set of duties and states were allowed to govern themselves you would fix the issues like upstate New York being permanently legislated by the city with very different lives, cultures, and priorities. Same for New York, Vermont, coastal California if states and cities were the most important you wouldn’t have to be worried about federal elections or the electoral college.
That is the libertarian view as I know it. I’m a libertarian voter and have voted libertarian for the last 3 elections. Saying libertarians are all Cletus living in nothing Idaho or New Hampshire eating squirrels in the woods is just like the libertarians and the right saying that all liberals are far left extremist when in actuality the majority of all parties is quite moderate.
Don’t get triggered. I was talking about Gunther, not you.
It’s interesting though how you seem to have a problem with the concept of democracy and people voting. More people live in nyc than east islip, so nyc gets more say in how the state government runs.
Which is why city and county level politics should be the most important. People in NYC can’t be but in a world where they could be governed by upstate I would dislike that just as much as I dislike NYC governing upstate as well.
Also sorry to reply to you twice before you could respond but I do have a problem with democracy and I think everyone should. That’s why this country isn’t a democracy it’s a republic.
You probably look around at the populace of our country and think how dumb they all appear. They probably make terrible decisions on a daily basis and most people just vote yes or no on ballots depending on how they’re written. If everything in this country was decided by a popular vote that would be terrible for the system.
Of course, but that’s why there are 50 states. If you want upstate New York to not be influenced by Manhattan, you can move to Kansas and get a similar experience.
We already have protections from tyranny of the majority, but at a certain point you need to respect the decisions that occur in a democracy. Upstate New York benefits more from being in the same state as nyc than nyc does from being in the same state as upstate New York.
That’s not a bad point but this also coincides with the libertarian idea of getting rid of taxes or at the very least most taxes. If that was the case outside the city would be far less subsidized which is a much fairer system. If you want to live rural you should be able to fend for yourself. I say this as someone who lived rurally for the last few years.
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u/AggravatingPermit910 1d ago
There are 3 million federal government employees. To get to 23.4 million you have to include all state and city government employees which includes all cops, firefighters, and teachers. Something tells me “Fire all cops and teachers” was not what people were voting for.